As of next month, archive copies of Acts of Parliament will cease to be printed on vellum, saving £80,000 in costs. Priorities. We has them. See, this one I'm not so sure about. When the historians look back over the English parliamentary record in five thousand years, they'll be able to pinpoint t...

In my capacity as archivist, I think this needs to be here (for when I get around to indexing it): http://xkcdsw.com/dump/nCqs3EQ-sml.png (From http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2rm6m7/the_bird_9_the_falcon_9_explained_using_1000/) For what it's worth, I'm only 30 pages back on the archiving...

You know, at deviantART their editor has "What You Type Is What You Get", or "WYTIWYG". So you can type Hi and make it italic with the toolbar button, or you can type <em>Hi</em>, and get the same result both ways. Any other examples of that, that people have come across?

Getting about half of this can be done via automation. Ie, building an Image link, poster name, and a link back to the original post. Ordered by posting date, checked to make sure that there aren't duplicates. Maybe even get the posting date to turn into a unix timestamp. Aye, I've experimented wit...

No, it's still being updated sometimes, it's just that that's where he's caught up to... he's still got a lot of backlog to work through, and people who keep posting more comics are only making it worse... Is there any way we could help? Are we able to post our own comics up there so we don't contr...

A wild package appears. Cuttin' it fine on the delivery time! http://xkcdsw.com/dump/20101224-ss-1.jpg http://xkcdsw.com/dump/20101224-ss-2.jpg After much unwrapping and cutting of black tape, we have: http://xkcdsw.com/dump/20101224-ss-3.jpg Tea, copious quantities of tea! Much thanks, whoever (sin...

I was going to say "let's get this show on the road", but I've been heavily ninja'd, it would seem. As per last year, my recipient will be receiving snail mail formatted as email. Pic: http://xkcdsw.com/dump/ssanta-2010.jpg It's going gone by standard UK-domestic (which narrows down the li...

So what would be the best way to get them to you? Just post them in here, or put them in a PM to me. As long as you say they're old images for re-inclusion, and not new ones to tack on the end, I'll put them in place. Have you checked to make sure that none of the ones on that list are actually on ...

I was just wondering, I noticed that all of my xkcdsws seem to have disappeared from the site, accessing them through the archive produces an error, how come? Sometime last year, the fora software was upgraded; this resulted in a large number of posts losing the links to their images, so I couldn't...

Right, good afternoon. You may have noticed that the xkcdsw archive is up to date, with the latest posts made here having been archived. With the completion of the archive comes a chance for some basic statistics. http://xkcdsw.com/dump/20101018-date-freq.png This thread was a lot more busy in '09 t...

Something weird is happening with xkcdsw.com. If you just go to xkcdsw.com it says "404". But if you go to xkcdsw.com/# and put in a number 2659 or lower, it shows you the comic for whatever number you put in. But why isn't it defaulting to the latest comic? Sure, maybe I should check the...

Just a quick note. I was so busy catching up to Randall and chromakode yesterday, that I didn't get a chance to actually tell anyone: the Making xkcd slightly worse archive has a CLI too . Because it's "slightly worse", it's DOS 2.0 instead of a Unix, and there are fewer commands (by a lon...

So. Last July, it seems that the fora fell over on attachments; a good number are missing from this thread, starting at Page 94 . Having just come across these in the process of indexing the xkcdsw archive, I'm putting them in with the following image: http://imrannazar.com/dump/missing.png If you'r...

Happy (belated) New Year, all. A status update on the archive: I've just finished indexing page 87, and came across my post saying I'd only indexed up to page 50. It looks like I'm on track to catch up to you guys towards the back end of this year. I referred on page 50 to putting together an "...

We're talking ff0000 Oh, that's bad. I pity the ff0000. You do know that f00 is a valid alternative to ff0000... And you do know that 12-bit colors can go fuck themselves. And you do know it's the same thing in this case. Well yeah. So is the 3-bit color whose binary representation is 100. Ah, EGA....

Oh, gee. Stuff I knew at one point: ⋅ The name of every country in the world (I could get to maybe half of 'em now); ⋅ Every mnemonic in the 6502 and ARM assembly languages (again, probably 50% retention); ⋅ Namarie (All I've got now is Ai! Laurie lantar lassi-surinen ...

A conglomeration of archive updates for you all. Firstly, browsing by author and source are now JavaScripted, so you don't get one ridiculously huge list of comics; instead, you can filter by a particular author/source, and see the results in the right-hand pane. Also, I've updated the RSS generator...

There are an awful lot of 7's in the 1-10 section. Also, would it be worth pointing out that any number (integer or not) can be entered? I had no idea it'd take non-integer values, so I put plain old boring numbers in.

I'll do ya one better than that. http://xkcdsw.com/dump/santa-package.jpg The date is an optimisic timeframe of posting, perhaps, but I'll get around to it sometime next week. Enjoy, whoever you happen to be. Edit : I fully realise that the Message-Id isn't a valid URL, and isn't even supposed to be...

This list of questions is getting mildly out of hand... :mrgreen: Question: If you like programming, what languages? would you like to learn a new one? I've always been a low-level kinda guy: assembly, C, C++. What I need is a good introduction to algorithms, but I doubt anyone's willing to buy a wh...

On a somewhat related topic, would it be recommended/required/expected for a quick note to be sent inside the Santa parcel, denoting who sent it? (May ruin the "Secret" bit somewhat, which is why I ask.)

if it's international post, doesn't it get stamps saying which countries it past through? I see where you're going with this, and I like it... No, it's not like a passport that gets stamped all the time. Just goes direct. Warning: Quote pyramid in progress. To be specific (and perhaps pedantic), it...

The gift I love the most and was (is) my all time favorite was one of those 300-in-1 circuit things that had a bunch of components mounted to a board with spring connectors. Building an AM radio station at age 10 = awesome! So very much this. I got one of these when I was 9 or 10, and spent all day...

To be fair, I've never seen a sig or document in Papyrus. It doesn't seem to see much common use in the UK; might be more a west-Atlantic thing. Comic Sans continues its pervasive intrusion here, though; I saw a shop front near me the other day written wholly in Comic Sans. Printed on METAL SIGNS; t...

I browsed quickly through their Effective Go guide, and it looks like iterating over a string will get you the byte position for each character, whether it's Unicode-extended or not. So iterating over "nihongo" (in Japanese) would net you 0, 3, 6 for the byte positions of the three charact...

I used to refer to myself as TripleFault, being an assembly-language geek and having fiddled with writing an OS at the time I was coming up with my first nick. Then I saw a file of "funny .sig's", and spotted this gem: 29A: Hexadecimal of the Beast. The rest is painfully obvious. Lo, I am ...

According to SCIENCE, there can never be nothing. Even in a pure vacuum, harder than the one you'd find in interstellar space, there's energy; energy is matter, so you'd have particles popping into existence with a mass of (some), interacting with their anti-particle created at the same time, and va...

But Istanbul is about the right distance; it'd allow you to hit most of Europe on the way back, and is about 3k miles (as far as I recall). A route generally through the middle of Europe would do ya (I'm good with specifics, I know).

You know, I saw a comment on (our good friend) Slashdot the other day that intrigued me. The gist of it was: what's the point of giving the name "GNU/Linux" if there's no reasonable alternative userland to GNU? Since the only major difference between GNU/Linux and GNU/FreeBSD is the kernel...

Mm, I'd guess a good number of us have a "personal debug logging tool" that sees use as a logfile generator. Last time I used mine was with the emulator project, which must be 3 years ago at least by now. Apart from a logger, the only thing I've got that would be of any use in C++ is a plu...

You know, that's not a half-bad idea. An extension with an inbuilt assembler wouldn't be too tough; the only problem would come in sandboxing the execution. It'd get far too easy to segfault the thing if it was left to roam free over the address lines. Another question: why are PayPal's recurring pa...